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Quotes About Impulse

They told me that nothing was a sin, just a poor life choice. Poor impulse control. That nothing is evil. Any concept of right versus wrong, according to them, is merely a cultural construct relative to one specific time and place. They said that if anything should force us to modify our personal behavior it should be our allegiance to a social contract, not some vague, externally imposed threat of flaming punishment.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Face it, dude. You nearly did sex on God's table. You're already shame spiralling big-time.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
What Tyler says about being the crap and the slaves of history, that's how I felt. I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have. Burn the Amazon rain forests. Pump chlorofluorocarbons straight up to gobble the ozone. Open the dump valves on supertankers and uncap offshore oil wells. I wanted to kill all the fish I couldn't afford to eat, and smother the French beaches I'd never see.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Why do the impulsive notions of a would-be do-gooder always translate into the ideals of the next civilization?
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I was in a mood to destroy something beautiful
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I'm so horny I have to go downtown and hunt for something to steal. It's a sexual release. You find what you want. You stalk it. You grab it and make it your own. After you've had it, you throw it away.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
What you have to love about drinking is, every swallow is an irrevocable decision. You charging ahead, in control if the game. It's the same with pills, sedatives and painkillers, every swallow us a first definite step down some road.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I would straight up fuck a snowman right now, she says. Just to cool down. - Miriam Black
~ Chuck Wendig
a creature of impulse.
~ Clive Barker
Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do. They are driven by instincts which are not within their control.
~ Virginia Woolf
She was off like a bird, bullet, or arrow, impelled by what desire, shot by whom, at what directed, who could say?
~ Virginia Woolf
But china is seldom thrown from a great height; it is one of the rarest of human actions. You have to find in conjunction a very high house, and a woman of such reckless impulse and passionate prejudice that she flings her jar or pot straight from the window without thought of who is below.
~ Virginia Woolf
No you can't take a pistol and plug a girl you don't even know simply because she attracts you.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
The two lads were told to wash their hands. The recent thrill of adventure had been superseded by another sort of excitement. They locked themselves up. The tap ran unheeded. Both were in a manly state and moaning like doves.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
No, no puedes echarle mano de una pistola y pegarle un tiro a una chica a la que ni siquiera conoces, simplemente porque te atrae.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
For he knew there was a pit of sexuality out there and that he longed to throw himself into it.
~ Larry Kramer
Cock-a-doodle-do! Any cock will do!
~ Larry Kramer
A man who wouldn't cheat for a poke don't want one bad enough. --Augustus "Gus" McCrae
~ Larry McMurtry
Pero en ciertos casos es más digno dejarse llevar de un impulso ciego, provocado por un gran amor, que oponerse a él.
~ Laura Esquivel
The heart knows nothing, sees nothing, but it kicks up a ruckus, throws tantrums to get what it wants.
~ Laura Lippman
Are we marching off to battle?" Please let him think it was the maniacal pace he was setting that made her breathless. He stopped abruptly and managed a laugh. "Sorry, it's just—ah, the hell with it." And he hauled her into his arms, his mouth swooping down and claiming her.
~ Laura Moore
My problem is I say what I'm thinking before I think what I'm saying.
~ Laurence J. Peter
The problem with temptation is that you may not get another chance.
~ Laurence Peter
Stop me and buy one.
~ Cecil Rodd